Vice President, Technical Operations at Web3 Foundation
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Joined April 2012
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Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
⚠️ Scam Alert: Fake Parity Wallet Website
We've been made aware of a fraudulent website, parity-wallet[.]com, impersonating Parity Technologies and offering potentially malicious wallet software downloads.
This website is not affiliated with Parity.
Do not visit the site, download any files or run software obtained from it.
Please stay vigilant and verify sources before downloading any software.
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
⚠️ Recruitment fraud warning
We've seen reports of scammers posing as recruiters for @Kusama, @Polkadot and the Web3 Foundation, asking applicants to pay for tests or assessments. In other cases, people are asked to download GitHub repos containing malicious code.
These are hoaxes.
Web3 Foundation does not charge people to apply for jobs. Polkadot and Kusama are decentralised networks, not employers.
Stay vigilant. Never pay to apply for a job, and be cautious before clicking on unsolicited links.
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
JUST IN: Argentina’s National Technological University adds Polkadot blockchain training to its curriculum
Final-year engineering students at its Córdoba campus are studying Polkadot Blockchain Academy’s protocol engineering course this semester, bringing blockchain education to a university with 112,000+ students.
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
Did you know you can turn an old smartphone into an offline crypto signing device? 📱🔓
The @paritytech Signer introduced this approach to the @Polkadot ecosystem back in 2018, keeping private keys offline and signing transactions via QR codes.
Today, the project lives on as Polkadot Vault, developed and maintained by @NovasamaTech.
Find out more 👇
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
A new strategic direction for Polkadot has been proposed for the DOT DAO on OpenGov today.
It aims to align the DAO behind shared goals such as user adoption, dotUSD, the Polkadot Product Platform and more ...
Read the full proposal below.👇
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
dotUSD is live on Polkadot.
Today a handful of companies issue and control most of the world's stablecoins worth more than $250B.
Like banks, they decide who can hold them and who can’t.
dotUSD is based on a different premise. It has no issuing company and no single point of control.
The DOT DAO governs it through OpenGov.
Polkadot now has a stablecoin that belongs to its network.
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
How much does an ordinary day reveal about you?
From the 🇬🇧 to 🇦🇺, the media is paying attention.
Smart devices to everyday services, your personal data can tell a far bigger story than you realize.
🎙️ W3F's @BillLaboon spoke to ABC Radio Australia about the findings of our latest research.
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
Web3 belongs in the mainstream.
@BillLaboon joined Good Morning Britain @GMB yesterday to discuss our latest research on privacy, data, and the everyday internet.
This is the work we love! We take the ideas behind Web3 beyond our industry and into the conversations shaping how people think about the future of the web.
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
"Who are you?" makes you hand over your full name, address, date of birth, and more, often just to prove you're not a bot.
"Are you a unique human?" is the question Polkadot asks, and you can answer it without giving up your identity or being tracked across apps.
What matters is that you're a real person, not where you live or who you are.
@billlaboon is speaking at Dark Prague by @InstituteCrypto, happening 3-5 October: "Prove You're Human. Keep Everything Else Private."
Catch the talk if you're in Prague 👇
I'll be at Dark Prague 3-5 October and giving a talk - "Prove You’re Human. Keep Everything Else Private.” darkprague.com/
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
Push notifications shouldn't be a spam vector.
With Avidity, you decide who can notify you. Every notification comes from a signed, backend-verified event, checked against your whitelist before it ever reaches you.
Tokens stay on the backend where no peer ever sees yours, and nothing reaches you unless you've approved the sender first.
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
25 engineers ran a self-hosted open-weight model for one month, generating 13 billion tokens. But our trial continued running because people kept using it, unprompted.
Along the way, we uncovered real insights into owning our own AI infrastructure: cost, availability, model choice, data, and future capabilities, instead of depending entirely on external providers.
parity.io/blog/self-hosted-a…
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
Lectured on the future of Internet, Authenticity in the age of AI, Digital Identity, and Verifiable Credentials to the law makers and developers taking part in the Catamarca On-chain program. Thank you @AcademyPolkadot for the opportunity to be part of the instructional team! – at Catamarca, Argentina
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
Today we marked the formal launch of Catamarca On-Chain 🇦🇷, an institutional training programme in blockchain and digital governance.
The opening meeting took place at Casa de Gobierno, alongside Governor @RaulJalil_ok, @marinamarchesot , Juan Pablo Dusso, Gustavo Aguirre and the whole team who made this encounter, and this week of joint work, possible. Thank you for the trust, and for welcoming us.
#CatamarcaOnChain will bring together officials, legislators and technical teams from the province this week, delivered alongside our faculty of international experts. We're so proud of the team joining us to make this possible.
Follow along this week to learn more 👀
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
A referendum proposing dotUSD, a protocol-native stablecoin for Polkadot, is now live on DOT DAO governance.
The proposal was drafted by community members across the Polkadot ecosystem and submitted to OpenGov via the Polkadot Community Foundation. PCF's role is limited to putting it forward for a community vote. PCF will not not deploy, operate, control or custody dotUSD.
The proposal outlines a phased approach: an initial stables-backed phase, followed by a DOT-collateralized vault phase subject to further development and governance.
The dotUSD implementation is now up for vote with the DOT DAO.
Read the full proposal and take part in the vote here: polkadot.subsquare.io/refere…
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
Runtime upgrade 2.5 just autonomously enacted for all System Chains.
Polkadot Runtime Upgrade 2.5 has been proposed to the DOT DAO for all System Chains.
polkadot.subsquare.io/refere…
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
Brave v1.94 on desktop added two major Brave Wallet upgrades: native @Polkadot support and private cross-chain transfers with @NEARProtocol's Confidential Intents. 🎉
Here's what that means for users...
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union states that everyone has the right to respect for their private and family life, home, and communications.
The current big tech paradigm seems to disregard those rights.
Polkadot products and technology aim to enable those fundamental rights for everyone, starting with private communication by default in the upcoming Polkadot products.
Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation retweeted
Referendum for dotUSD – a native stablecoin for Polkadot.
What do you think about it?
polkadot.subsquare.io/refere…
